Ray Evans Seminar

This year's Ray Evans Seminar is April 12–14. Our guest speaker is Dr. John Mark Hicks and the topic is "Searching for the Pattern," focusing on content from his book with the same title. 


You can learn more about sessions, the speaker, and our annual seminar below. 


FREE childcare is available, but you must sign up ahead of time.  If you need childcare, submit the form at the bottom of this webpage or call the church office at 405-321-0788.

FRI. & SAT. (4/12/24-4/13/24)

FRIDAY

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm  How I Grew Up Searching for the Pattern


SATURDAY

9:30 am to 10:15 am      For What Kind of Pattern are We Searching?

10:15 am to 10:45 am    Break

10:45 am to 11:30 am    Jesus is our Pattern

11:30 am to 12:00 pm    Q&A Session

SUNDAY (4/14/24)

All adult Bible classes will meet in the auditorium for a combined class led by Dr. Hicks.


SUNDAY

Bible Class at 9:00 am:
How does the Pattern Form People of Generosity (2 Corinthians 8-9)

Worship at 10:00 am:
How Jesus Read His Bible (Matthew 12:1-12)

Dr. John Mark Hicks

Dr. John Mark Hicks, as Professor of Theology, taught full time in higher education among Churches of Christ from 1982 to 2023. He is retired and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. 


He has taught in 40 states and 24 countries around the world. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or contributed to 48 books as well as contributing to both academic and popular journals. He is married to Jennifer and shares five living children and six grandchildren with her.

Ray Evans Seminar & Library

Ray Evans was a minister, missionary, scholar, and teacher. He preached at University Church of Christ which later merged with Central Church of Christ to form Alameda Church of Christ. Working diligently with college students, Ray believed teaching God’s word would encourage the next generation of teachers to dig deeper and reach farther. Ray had a master’s degree in Old Testament Studies, was working on his PhD in Communications, was a preaching minister, and a missionary in The Hague, Netherlands, but his passion was teaching. He joined the Preston Road School of Preaching as a professor to share his experience and encourage the next generation of preaching ministers. His students experienced great loss when Ray and three of his colleagues were killed in a plane crash on February 22, 1979.  


This seminar and the Ray Evans Library at Alameda are memorials of his passion for teaching and encouraging students of the Bible. Those who are searching will find answers they seek, and Ray wanted to share his appetite for the Bible with those around him. His wife, JoAnn Belknap, continued to remember his diligence and shared it with others in this annual Bible seminar.  JoAnn passed away in 2023, and this year's Ray Evans Seminar serves in memory of her as well. 


Every year, a Bible scholar comes to Alameda to share his area of Biblical knowledge in celebration of Ray Evans’ dedication. His legacy lives on in the loved ones he left behind who share with us his hunger for teaching and learning together in the family of Christ.

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